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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
@ da jane... Html is so easy to deal with. What I do is open the book with Word, pass it through a reformating macro,change the properties of the document and resave it under an other name in RTF format. That takes under two minutes. Quite worth it for a ten hour read. With PDF; open document in Acrobat reader, select all, copy and paste in Word. Then pass it through the macro and save in RTF. ET three minutes. The "copy" is the culprit in this process, it seems to go on forever...
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I know how to transfer it but I have hundreds of books and I hate having to convert each one to read. Plus, the whole idea of the electronic library is to be able to tote it around with the books I may want to read, not just the ones I took the time to convert. Further not all my htmls can a) be reformatted into word and b) I have remember to increase the font size and c) they tend to lose important formatting cues (i.e section breaks) and d) certain books have a differnet html for each book meaning I would have to convert 20 some files to read it - etc.
No thanks. That's why my friend has been using my sony reader for the past three months and I have been using my trusty old HP with the gowerpoing ubook reader. That and because it's backlit.
For the average consumer, the requirement to fiddle with a file in order to get it to be readable is a major drawback and for the romance reader who also likes ebooks (i.e., the ones who buy from Ellora's Cave or Samhain etc) these books aren't offered in the propriety format of BBeB but in non DRM formats like html, PDF and the like. Sony isn't immediately compatible for them where as the Baen Bookeen would be.